Men's large Gary Fisher Tassajara Mountain Bike

I just bought a leftover 2009 model, very pleased with the bike. I was about to pull the trigger on a '10 Wahoo when the LBS guy mentioned there might be some leftover '09 models, so I upgraded a bit.

Not an expert by any stretch, but I think the Tass is a really nice package. Older models may or may not be disc-equipped (I think it was offered both ways in the earlier production years). They've used a variety of components over the years, but all appear to be upper entry-level stuff of high quality.

Find out the year (and of course the size)--citing what a bike costs new might not mean a lot if it's a 7-year old bike for sale. At the price he's asking, sounds like it might be fairly early model, but who knows, you might be looking at a really good deal.

 

Hope it works out for you Woogy. I paid $750 for the bike new, as a leftover.

 

Nah, nothing death defying (unless you count some of the broken paved roads here in Algiers, LOL...).

I don't do anything that aggressive that I'd be interested in looking at full suspension bikes. Bought it primarily for more cross-country riding.

Bill

 

Looks like it's been babied....

 

Woog, I really don't have too much expertise on used bike prices...I can tell you when I we bought our first new bikes a year or so back (a couple Trek hybrids for my wife and I, $400-$600 bikes IIRC), we traded our two existing bikes in. Hers was a GT hybrid, about 2002/3 vintage, and mine was an early Schwinn trail bike (no suspension), about '93 vintage. As I recall, the LBS gave me about $125 for my wife's, and $225 for mine, figuring he could probably resell them for an additional $40-$50 apiece.

If I were buying a bike this old, I'd want to take it to a shop and have it gone over, regardless of how clean it might be--just a general tune up, relube, cable adjustments, that kind of thing. So I'd add maybe another $50-$60 into my buying budget for that kind of stuff. Might even need new tires, depending on their actual age/condition, or type of tire you might prefer, which would add a bit more to the equation.

Nothing wrong with buying a $200 bike and putting another $100 into tune up and parts, but it's something you should be aware of going in.

If he's asking $225, JMHO, but I'd offer around $140-$150 and see if he bites. There are likely some guys around here with more experience buying/selling used though, so hopefully someone else will chime in.

Bill

 

Well did you buy the bike, looking at the photos I would give him 200 in a hart beat. :thumbsup:

 

IH, glad some folks with more experience have chimed in to help out Woogy.

But your post raised a question for me--to a novice like myself looking at the specs on the S-1, it doesn't appear that different from the bike Woog's looking at (or Fisher's G series in general), save age and the longer extension fork over the older Tass.

Is there something else that I should be paying attention to?

(Woog, sorry for the off-route vector on your post).

Bill

 

Ok, thanks--looking at the specs, that didn't come across that clearly to me (both alum, similar quality components, etc.), but as I said, mine is a novice's eye--and I've never had the chance to look at/explore Specialized's stuff up close.

Bill

 

Gotcha, thanks!